Bounds in the Theory of Finite Covers

AbstractWe give an upper bound for the number of conjugacy classes of closed subgroups of the full wreath product FWrWSym(Ω) which project onto Sym(Ω). Here, Ω is infinite, W is the set of n-tuples of distinct elements from Ω (for some finite n), F is a finite nilpotent group, and the topology on the wreath product is that of pointwise convergence in its imprimitive permutation action. The result addresses a problem which arises in a natural model-theoretic context about classifying certain types of finite covers